Allison Nash, who plays Aspirations Winery in Clearwater, Florida on May 22, 2025. Credit: Photo via allisonnashmusic.com

It’s a busy weekend for Clearwater Jazz Holiday.

The nonprofit with a fall music festival stages its Young Lions Jazz Festival over the weekend and an intimate show featuring heavyweights of the local scene—La Lucha rhythm section Alejandro Arenas (bass) and Mark Feinman (drums), pianist Patrick Bettison and saxophonist Jeremy Carter—in a quintet fronted by powerhouse vocalist Allison Nash.

Tickets to see Clearwater Jazz Holiday’s Evening of Jazz & Soul at Clearwater’s Aspirations Winery on Thursday, May 22 are still available for $20.

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This article appears in May 15-21, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...